So you develop a game in OpenGL rather than directX, package and distribute a Linux version and sales go up by 0.1%.
And it's not as good because Linux hasn't had a multi million dollar multinational working to improve games performance and working directly with the hardware manufacturers to maximise performance.
Why? What's wrong with current IP legislation that is fixed by this? Intellectual property has thrived in the US for a century with much weaker protection. In some areas its actually stagnating because the protection is too strong.
I'd have thought that a modern engine is designed with an assumption of a certain viscosity of fuel, and more or less viscosity would make it less efficient.
Still, it would be wrong to reject this out of hand. Find an independent judge to rig up two new cars on a rolling road, one with and one without the device, and compare fuel consumption. Swap the device over periodically to be sure.
Certainly there's an onus on MS to provide decent documentation, but I think it very likely that Microsoft have as good an understanding about their own code as the rest of the world.
I was using a library, where all the documentation was along the lines of "SetFrameDescriptor(FrameDescriptor* Pfd, FrameDescriptorID id) - Sets the Frame descriptor", without any explanation of what the Frame Descriptor is, why I might want to use one, or how to use it. And this was a public API that was provided because the company wants third parties to develop for their hardware. I think it very likely that Microsoft's internal documentation is very much the same. Their failure to comply is largely because they can't.
True. Only the other day I was bitching about the crappy documentation on a piece of code, and I was the one who wrote it!
Programmers are always completely oblivious as to what will not be so obvious to someone else or themselves several months down the line. At the time you;re writing it, it's quite clear that the routine will do exactly what you want it to do at that moment.
The employer has a much stronger bargaining position than the employee. As a result, the employee can be treated quite harshly for the enrichment of the employer.
Do you think it would be a better world if those who are willing to exploit others are the ones who benefit most?
Salespeople have to travel all the time and often spend weeks away from their families.
Computer professionals don't have to.
Operations managers need to crunch budgets and give presentations at the last minute.
If this involves overtime, they should get paid overtime for that.
Team leaders are expected to spend their weekends doing "team-building exercises."
They should get paid overtime for that.
On the one hand, you don't get paid for the long hours you put in. On the other hand, your employer can't make you report how many hours you worked.
Not much of a trade off is it?
. Either you're playing the game of "I don't want to be the first one to leave," or maybe you're working too much because you're not accurately budgeting your workload,
It's most likely that a manager is putting pressure on the employee. This is an unfair bargaining position. The employer is essentially offering the employee to work late or lose their home and be unable to afford to eat.
Apple might have initially only provided copy protection because the labels demanded it, but Apple loved copy protection. It meant iTunes users were locked into iPods, and iPod users were locked into iTunes. iTunes even required people who were happy not to have DRM to have it.
It was only after public opinion started to turn against DRM that Apple insisted it had never been in favour.
Presumably you agree to some T&Cs before you submit an application to the Apple Store which could be interpreted as allowing them to do this.
In practice, it's probably unenforceable. If Apple sued you for disclosing the reasons for the rejection they wouldn't be able to show any damages, and since Apple aren't doing anything, you might even be able to argue that the contractual arrangement ended with apple's rejection.
I think that's just an extra feature they added because they were already using OpenGL though. The graphical effects are more important. Adding zooming and panning for older cards would require writing a completely new renderer to deal with it. And since you can get a shader model 3.0 compatible card for a fraction of the cost of Photoshop, it's safe to assume that anyone who feels they need this functionality will buy a new graphics card as well.
This was direct from the main Crystal palace transmitter. I don't think there are a lot of fill-ins covering London. There are a lot more analogue transmitters than digital.
Ghosting (an effect of multipath reception, where the tv receives the signal more than once) is an annoyance with analog sets and occurs in areas with serious terrain, skyscrapers, or airplanes flying overhead (none of which really affects the Wilmington market). With a digital set, it can cause a complete loss of signal as the logic hardware may not know onto which signal to lock.
Don't know whether differences in different systems will have an effect but I had terrible ghosting on analogue due to tall buildings, but a perfect digital signal at my house in London.
Study determines that people ignore dire warnings after experiencing that they're virtually always overstating and end up disregarding them as an annoyance.
Same general psychological area as the boy who cried wolf.
There's nowhere near as big a difference over DVD as DVD had over VHS.
Show just about anyone a recording of the best quality VHS recording or a typical DVD on a reasonable quality screen and they'll be able to tell you which it is.
Show a high quality DVD with decent upscaling or a blu-ray disc and I bet a fair number of people will get it wrong. Especially if the DVD is 576 line PAL.
You can see the better quality on a side by side comparison easily enough but DVD is actually quite high quality.
And most buyers of that format would say "DAMN, what am I going to do with these huge fucking obsolete discs".
They'd probably play them in their obsolete laserdisc players. They still play the discs. They didn't suddenly cease to exist because you can't buy new ones.
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I remember when Trolls were original. This is better than the cut and paste ones I guess but only slightly.
So you develop a game in OpenGL rather than directX, package and distribute a Linux version and sales go up by 0.1%.
And it's not as good because Linux hasn't had a multi million dollar multinational working to improve games performance and working directly with the hardware manufacturers to maximise performance.
Why? What's wrong with current IP legislation that is fixed by this? Intellectual property has thrived in the US for a century with much weaker protection. In some areas its actually stagnating because the protection is too strong.
THAT's* when you can trot out the "God did it"s.
Yes and no...
If you believe that some supernatural force started off the Big Bang, then there's nothing I can say to argue against it.
On the other hand there's no real reason for believing that. So ultimately it's just a matter of faith.
No problem with that. It's just important to understand that it's highly speculative and that there's a difference between science and religion.
I'd have thought that a modern engine is designed with an assumption of a certain viscosity of fuel, and more or less viscosity would make it less efficient.
Still, it would be wrong to reject this out of hand. Find an independent judge to rig up two new cars on a rolling road, one with and one without the device, and compare fuel consumption. Swap the device over periodically to be sure.
I'm not sure.
Certainly there's an onus on MS to provide decent documentation, but I think it very likely that Microsoft have as good an understanding about their own code as the rest of the world.
I was using a library, where all the documentation was along the lines of "SetFrameDescriptor(FrameDescriptor* Pfd, FrameDescriptorID id) - Sets the Frame descriptor", without any explanation of what the Frame Descriptor is, why I might want to use one, or how to use it. And this was a public API that was provided because the company wants third parties to develop for their hardware. I think it very likely that Microsoft's internal documentation is very much the same. Their failure to comply is largely because they can't.
True. Only the other day I was bitching about the crappy documentation on a piece of code, and I was the one who wrote it!
Programmers are always completely oblivious as to what will not be so obvious to someone else or themselves several months down the line. At the time you;re writing it, it's quite clear that the routine will do exactly what you want it to do at that moment.
Why?
The employer has a much stronger bargaining position than the employee. As a result, the employee can be treated quite harshly for the enrichment of the employer.
Do you think it would be a better world if those who are willing to exploit others are the ones who benefit most?
Salespeople have to travel all the time and often spend weeks away from their families.
Computer professionals don't have to.
Operations managers need to crunch budgets and give presentations at the last minute.
If this involves overtime, they should get paid overtime for that.
Team leaders are expected to spend their weekends doing "team-building exercises."
They should get paid overtime for that.
On the one hand, you don't get paid for the long hours you put in. On the other hand, your employer can't make you report how many hours you worked.
Not much of a trade off is it?
. Either you're playing the game of "I don't want to be the first one to leave," or maybe you're working too much because you're not accurately budgeting your workload,
It's most likely that a manager is putting pressure on the employee. This is an unfair bargaining position. The employer is essentially offering the employee to work late or lose their home and be unable to afford to eat.
I also happen to produce the most robust code, and seem to at least match everyone else for productivity.
Funny that.
Apple might have initially only provided copy protection because the labels demanded it, but Apple loved copy protection. It meant iTunes users were locked into iPods, and iPod users were locked into iTunes. iTunes even required people who were happy not to have DRM to have it.
It was only after public opinion started to turn against DRM that Apple insisted it had never been in favour.
Anyone who is supposed to have such a card but doesnt can just pretend to be on of the 99.9% of the population that is not required to have the card.
It's not like most employers don't know their workers are illegal.
Lastly but most importantly -- there is no "problem".
Certainly true. Classic case of a solution looking for a problem.
You sir, are evil. You know this site is full of grammar pedants with OCD and still you posted this.
It's addictive and there's a reasonably high risk that gamblers will turn to crime to fund their addiction.
This may or may not justify banning it but at there is at least a reason behind it.
Presumably you agree to some T&Cs before you submit an application to the Apple Store which could be interpreted as allowing them to do this.
In practice, it's probably unenforceable. If Apple sued you for disclosing the reasons for the rejection they wouldn't be able to show any damages, and since Apple aren't doing anything, you might even be able to argue that the contractual arrangement ended with apple's rejection.
This whole study goes against my worldview so I'm going to disregard it entirely.
You can do that with 1.0.
I think that's just an extra feature they added because they were already using OpenGL though. The graphical effects are more important. Adding zooming and panning for older cards would require writing a completely new renderer to deal with it. And since you can get a shader model 3.0 compatible card for a fraction of the cost of Photoshop, it's safe to assume that anyone who feels they need this functionality will buy a new graphics card as well.
Programmable fragment shaders are a little different from blitters.
Windows 3.1 could use hardware acceleration to move a rectangular section of video memory to another part of video memory.
A modern 3D card can apply a program in parallel to every pixel on screen, resize, rotate, and apply arbitrary filters with minimal CPU load.
This was direct from the main Crystal palace transmitter. I don't think there are a lot of fill-ins covering London. There are a lot more analogue transmitters than digital.
Simple, but causes them greater pain. Hopefully that will make it more effective.
Ghosting (an effect of multipath reception, where the tv receives the signal more than once) is an annoyance with analog sets and occurs in areas with serious terrain, skyscrapers, or airplanes flying overhead (none of which really affects the Wilmington market). With a digital set, it can cause a complete loss of signal as the logic hardware may not know onto which signal to lock.
Don't know whether differences in different systems will have an effect but I had terrible ghosting on analogue due to tall buildings, but a perfect digital signal at my house in London.
Study determines that people ignore dire warnings after experiencing that they're virtually always overstating and end up disregarding them as an annoyance.
Same general psychological area as the boy who cried wolf.
There's nowhere near as big a difference over DVD as DVD had over VHS.
Show just about anyone a recording of the best quality VHS recording or a typical DVD on a reasonable quality screen and they'll be able to tell you which it is.
Show a high quality DVD with decent upscaling or a blu-ray disc and I bet a fair number of people will get it wrong. Especially if the DVD is 576 line PAL.
You can see the better quality on a side by side comparison easily enough but DVD is actually quite high quality.
And most buyers of that format would say "DAMN, what am I going to do with these huge fucking obsolete discs".
They'd probably play them in their obsolete laserdisc players. They still play the discs. They didn't suddenly cease to exist because you can't buy new ones.
Any accusation of a felony is harmful to an employed person.
There wasn't an accusation of a felony.
then there's the obvious harm of negative public opinion and I'd say stress would be pretty huge at having the press question if you're a pedophile.
There wasn't any negative public opinion. The press never suggested he was a pedophile.